# John Fogerty is BACK!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-fogerty-is-back/335914
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 16, 2005, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-fogerty-is-back/335914 "2005-12-16T14:43:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2005, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-fogerty-is-back/335914/1 "2005-12-16T14:43:16Z")
Just heard on NPR this morning that after 35 years of litigation Fantasy Records is in new hands and [John Fogerty](http://www.johnfogerty.com/main.php) is releasing a greatest hits WITH CCR songs on it!
Cool news indeed!
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### Author:  [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2005, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-fogerty-is-back/335914/2 "2005-12-16T15:34:29Z")
Does that mean I can stop hating Saul Zaentz now?
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-fogerty-is-back/335914/3 "2005-12-16T15:37:25Z")
> [@Dr. Rieux](#):
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> Does that mean I can stop hating Saul Zaentz now?
Why would you do that? He’s still a weasel. And he still kant danz.
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### Author:  [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-fogerty-is-back/335914/4 "2005-12-16T15:40:08Z")
A few months ago, I went to see John Mellencamp in concert. John Fogerty was the opening act.
For me, Fogerty was a nice plus as I have always liked CCR, but I was really going to see Mellencamp.
Mellencamp was a disappointing live performance, while Fogerty rocked the house.
I am very glad I saw his show. It was one of the 5 to 10 best live performances I’ve ever seen.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-fogerty-is-back/335914/5 "2005-12-16T15:43:58Z")
Sweden?
He’s going to tour _Sweden_?
WTF happened to “Louisiana, just about a mile from Texarkana”? 🙂
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-fogerty-is-back/335914/6 "2005-12-16T19:23:17Z")
> [@ddgryphon](#):
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> Just heard on NPR this morning that after 35 years of litigation Fantasy Records is in new hands and [John Fogerty](http://www.johnfogerty.com/main.php) is releasing a greatest hits WITH CCR songs on it!
[A greatest hits CD with CCR songs on it was released last month](http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=3328190).
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### Author:  [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2005, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-fogerty-is-back/335914/7 "2005-12-16T19:26:55Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#):
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> [A greatest hits CD with CCR songs on it was released last month](http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=3328190).
I saw it at Starbucks the other day.
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### Author:  [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-fogerty-is-back/335914/8 "2005-12-16T19:35:30Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> Sweden?
> He’s going to tour _Sweden_?
> WTF happened to “Louisiana, just about a mile from Texarkana”? 🙂
Huh?
What’s so strange about that? He comes every two years or so and plays 5-10 different towns.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-fogerty-is-back/335914/9 "2005-12-16T21:11:05Z")
> [@The Gaspode](#):
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> Huh?
> What’s so strange about that? He comes every two years or so and plays 5-10 different towns.
I didn’t think that genre would be popular outside the Southern USA.
Apparently I’m mistaken. 🙂
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-fogerty-is-back/335914/10 "2005-12-16T21:47:49Z")
> [@brownie55](#):
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> I saw it at Starbucks the other day.
Really? I hoyd it through the grapevine 😛
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### Author:  [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-fogerty-is-back/335914/11 "2005-12-16T22:30:50Z")
English-sung rock music and musicians have been popular in Sweden for a long, long time. A couple of examples: the best recording of the best live performance by The Beatles was made on a radio show there, at Karaplansstudion. Jimi Hendrix played in Stockholm numerous times; in fact a stellar version of “Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)” that can be regarded as the best performance of that song ever given, is from Stockholm in January 1969. Swedes like American music, and it’s no surprise that CCR and John Fogerty are popular there, as well.
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### Author:  [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-fogerty-is-back/335914/12 "2005-12-17T02:23:05Z")
[Creedence Clearwater Revival: Chronicle](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000XB9/qid=1134785831/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-8420437-1159855?v=glance&s=music) volumes I and II (20 tracks each) were released back in '76. How many gol-darned CCR greatest hits collections do we need? At this point you should just buy all their CDs. And now for my rendition of **Green River:**
_Weeellllll…take me on down the hoo-ya boneyard…_
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### Author:  [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-fogerty-is-back/335914/13 "2005-12-17T02:33:54Z")
> [@Dr. Rieux](#):
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> Does that mean I can stop hating Saul Zaentz now?
Isn’t he the guy who owns _The Lord of the Rings_? [checks] Ah, yes, he is. Wow, big empire.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2005, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-fogerty-is-back/335914/14 "2005-12-17T03:06:24Z")
> [@Torgo](#):
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> [Creedence Clearwater Revival: Chronicle](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000XB9/qid=1134785831/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-8420437-1159855?v=glance&s=music) volumes I and II (20 tracks each) were released back in '76. How many gol-darned CCR greatest hits collections do we need?
The new one is about 60% CCR and 40% solo hits.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-fogerty-is-back/335914/15 "2005-12-17T03:14:16Z")
[QUOTE=Torgo And now for my rendition of **Green River:**
_Weeellllll…take me on down the hoo-ya boneyard…_[/QUOTE]
Please elaborate, Sir. I had the lyrics wrong unwhooshed.
I grew up “about a mile from Texarkana” listening to them. One of my first dates was CCR at Barton. Europe or Scandanavia, it jest ain’t right. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2005, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-fogerty-is-back/335914/16 "2005-12-17T06:48:11Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> I didn’t think that genre would be popular outside the Southern USA.
> Apparently I’m mistaken. 🙂
The members of CCR all went to my high school in El Cerrito, California, a few miles north of Berkeley. Not only don’t you have to be from Dixie to like CCR, the band members themselves weren’t from there.